Friday, May 23, 2008

O! how this spring of love resemblethThe uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)"The Two Gentlemen of Verona"

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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.

The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933)Fisherman's Luck (1899)

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William Wordsworth. 1770–1850

The Rainbow

MY heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man;So be it when I shall grow old, 5Or let me die!The Child is father of the Man;I could wish my days to beBound each to each by natural piety.

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For winter's rains and ruins are over,And all the season of snows and sins;The days dividing lover and lover,The light that loses, the night that wins;And time remembered is grief forgotten,And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,And in green underwood and coverBlossom by blossom the spring begins.